New Hires and Expanded Internship Program Strengthen Strategic Consulting
Services, Reporting and Analysis Staff in Europe and Canada
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Oct. 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Pharsight Corporation (OTC Bulletin Board: PHST), a leading provider of software, strategic consulting, and regulatory services for optimizing clinical drug development, today announced the expansion of its scientific consulting services practices with three new hires. Pharsight has also expanded its internship program, which is designed to foster knowledge of modeling and simulation amongst graduate students in a variety of scientific disciplines.
Pharsight has hired Lars Lindbom, Ph.D., as a senior associate scientist in its Strategic Consulting Services (SCS) group, based in Europe. Dr. Lindbom joins Pharsight from Uppsala University's department of Pharmaceutical Biosciences in Sweden, where he held a postdoctoral research fellowship sponsored by Pfizer. He also served as a bioinformatics software systems developer within the discovery research organization at AstraZeneca. Dr. Lindbom has broad experience with population pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic (PK/PD) modeling and pharmacometric method development, with an emphasis in computer-intensive statistical methods.
Dr. Lindbom holds a Ph.D. from Uppsala University's department of Pharmaceutical Biosciences, within the National Network in Drug Development, Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research. Dr. Lindbom has authored or co- authored several original research articles in the field of pharmacostatistical modeling and has given invited presentations on Perl- speaks-NONMEM (PsN), a collection of computer programs aiding in the development of non-linear mixed effects models using NONMEM, to which he was a developer and remains an active contributor.
Pharsight's recently launched Reporting and Analysis Services (RAS)
business unit has added a PK scientist in response to increased gl
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